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List:       linux-kernel
Subject:    Re: [kbuild-devel] Re: Remaining undocumented Configure.help symbols
From:       "Eric S. Raymond" <esr () thyrsus ! com>
Date:       2001-05-31 23:10:55
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Jim Freeman <jfree@sovereign.org>:
> The verbiage in these entries seems 'make config' / text-interaction
> -centric.  Granted, that's likely the context most kernel builders will
> use, but it would seem fair to at least consider a broader audience
> who may be using more gui-ish tools wrapped around extant content.

This is a general problem with almost all the existing entries, and
will have to await a future editing pass for solution.  For now I think
it's more important to have consistent cues that users can recognize,
even if they're not literally appropriate.
-- 
		<a href="http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/">Eric S. Raymond</a>

It is the assumption of this book that a work of art is a gift, not a
commodity.  Or, to state the modern case with more precision, that works of
art exist simultaneously in two "economies," a market economy and a gift
economy.  Only one of these is essential, however: a work of art can survive
without the market, but where there is no gift there is no art.
	-- Lewis Hyde, The Gift: Imagination and the Erotic Life of Property
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